Ask HN: What are some examples of well-written post mortems? 4 points by valar_m 3y ago ↗ HN What are some good examples of well-written public post mortem docs?
[–] yen223 3y ago ↗ The only ones that stand out in my mind are the Cloudflare post-mortems: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/postmortem/They are impressive both in the depth at which they talk about the issue, and also in the speed at which they get published.
[–] mikewarot 3y ago ↗ Richard Feynman's report on the Challenger Disaster[1] was so divergent from the desired political posture they made it a separate appendix. It stands as a showcase of root cause analysis.[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001018100729/http://science.ks...
[–] jjtang1 3y ago ↗ Roblox one is one of my favourite: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-....FWIW - my company https://rootly.com/ builds a tool that helps automate postmortem write ups (e.g. timeline creation, etc).
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 16.2 ms ] threadThey are impressive both in the depth at which they talk about the issue, and also in the speed at which they get published.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001018100729/http://science.ks...
FWIW - my company https://rootly.com/ builds a tool that helps automate postmortem write ups (e.g. timeline creation, etc).